bernanke and timothy geithner, the combination of the team that had saved the world from utter financial collapse. and that's what they knew they needed. and john mccain, on the other hand, was running around like a headless chicken, and they were scared, they were petrified he would become president, especially with his vice presidential candidate. so they voted in their self-interest, because they knew that the system needed to be saved. now that the system is saved is, they just want to pay less taxes. >> that gets to this question of narrow self-interest versus broad self-interest. in the case of adelson, this is really important for people to understand. when you're talking these marginal races, this is tens of millions, hundreds of millions of dollars for people. there's a ton of money on the table. >> if you're earning $400,000 a year, you're still paying less than top marginal rates. it's only the last bit. if you're sheldon adelson, you're paying the marginal rates on basically everything. >> basically everything. but there's also the sense in which the self-interest is very nar